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Tuesday, December 16, 2008

Tuesday, December 16, 2008

So Dawn W. was throwing a Wizard of Oz cast party, and she knew better than to order anything as complicated as a Yellow Brick Road cake. So instead, she simply asked for a cake with "Somewhere Over the Rainbow" on it.

Now, if you've read this blog for any time at all, then you're probably expecting the same thing I was - an inscription that looks like this:

I refuse to accept that this is a professionally made cake and that the concept of "Somewhere Over The Rainbow" could have been so horribly misconstrued and completely missed. That's it, right? The whole of the cake? "Somewheres" and a poorly airbrushed rainbow that looks more like an unrolled Fruit By The Foot? Besides being just plain fugly, this is unforgivable. What would Dorothy think?

The more I see on your blog, the more it makes me want to become a cake decorator - just to stop the madness and help society. The Air Force has plenty of medics, but apparently there's a real decorator shortage in this country!

I suspect this wreckorator actually wanted to be a fake tan technician.

Am I the only person who thought that the mnemonic 'Richard of York Gave Battle In Vain' worked the other way around, and used the colours of the rainbow (simple to remember) to recall the many strategic failures of the 3rd Duke of York? No? Ok.

These comments have taught me something I never knew. Roy G. Biv! I'm pretty sure none of my teachers ever taught me that...but I'm not a cake decorator so that doesn't matter. This person should have known the correct colors!

They started with the intention of putting "Somewhere over the rainbow" and accidentally put the s on somewhere. Then while they were out back smoking, thinking about how they were going to fix it, the customer came in to pick it up.

If not, they are either a total smarty pants or they have never seen or heard of the Wizard of Oz.

*Word verification:hubblym-the green gooey frosting used to make dragon cakes.

I think "somewheres" comes from the increasingly popular txting spelling and grammar rules. I have seen high school papers using such language, and it makes me very, very sad for the fate of the English language.

Word Verification: Throple- What most cake wreck receivers feel like doing to the sugar-high decorators responsible.

LOL this is my favorite wreck yet!!! And the more I look at these things, the more I think, "HEY! I can do this, too!" I've never been to pastry school, but I don't think any of our wreck creators have! tee hee

You know those kiosks in the mall where you can get your picture taken and screen printed in mediocre quality on an airbrushed T-shirt or wall scroll or whatever? That's who I think made this cake, one of those.

It looked like "Somewhered" to me. Maybe it's a new verb meaning "I went somewhere." Just, "I somewhered."

And to the decorator's credit, the colors are sort of in reverse order... violet, pink, yellow and green go in that order... it just doesn't start with violet. And there are like four other colors missing.

I feel like there are times when an incorrect rainbow can be excused. Really, if someone sort of combines blue and indigo, I'm not going to get all worked up about it. Or if a child's birthday cake is deliberately done in a cartoony style and the rainbow only has red, yellow, green, blue, and purple, it's fine.

I just like to think of alternatives. If you've ever seen a double rainbow, you will have noticed that the colors reverse on the outside one, so this could be the outside (reverse order) of a double rainbow. The area between the two rainbows is sort of purply-black (I like to think of it as ultraviolet).But I doubt that this decorator ever bothered to look at a rainbow.

Amy.mangos said... "I think "somewheres" comes from the increasingly popular txting spelling and grammar rules. I have seen high school papers using such language, and it makes me very, very sad for the fate of the English language."--------------------Or not.I've heard ADULTS talk this way-plenty of times. "Somewheres," "anyways," and many others. It's not new at all. That fate is sealed, I'm afraid.

WOO-HOO! I was THRILLED to see this on Cake Wrecks today! I'm the submitter and yes - it's totally real. This happened to me a couple of years ago...and I'm SO happy I snapped a photo before it was gone. The "decorator" was a 45ish year-old woman at Sobeys. I almost refused to take the cake when I saw it, but on second thought, it was just too funny. I'm glad you all thought so too!

possibly a miss-translation of an idea.call-taker: "hey I have a sweet idea, they want a somewhere over the rainbow cake so we do a cake with a rainbow on it, and get this the somewhere's over the rainbow right?

oh my goodness, that is......clever? this makes me laugh even more, because I am actually making a Wizard of Oz cake in Jaunary for a little girl. It's going to have an emerald city, fondant yellow brick road, poppy field and a rock candy rainbow! The cake in this post is just....disappointing.

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